Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC
THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,281,749 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,206,749). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- New Schools Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- City Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- Cityschools Collaborativeshared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 88% · 2021 14% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $1.3M.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 68% · 2019 68% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 82% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- New Schools Fundshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundshared fundersportfolio matchOR · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cityschools Collaborativeshared fundersDC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Bellwether Education Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Mn Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tntp Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Koshland Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National School Choice Awareness Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Federation for Children Growth Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Profit Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC?
- THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,281,749 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($4,206,749). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $6,281,749 in grants to THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,206,749 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EXPECTATIONS PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 9funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing